How to use old network device naming convention

by Milosz Galazka on May 8, 2017

It is a matter of personal preference whether you use current or former network device naming convention. I am more accustomed to the latter and will configure operating system to retain the old behavior.

As you can see the interface name is wlp2s0, thanks to this we can easily determine what is the type of this device and where it is located, but it really doesn't matter (see one-liner at the end of this article) and we want to see good old wlan0 name.